Grade: 6 Unit: 2 Week: 6 Content: ELA Dates: 11/5-11/7 Theme: What do myths, legends, and tales reveal about world cultures? Essential Questions:
How does learning about folklore help me understand world cultures?
How do I apply the morals and lessons taught by myths, legends, and tales to my life?
Focus Standards
RL.6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
L.6.1a Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (possessive).
L.6.3a Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader interest, and style.
L.6.4b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
W.6.2 Write informative/explanatory texts
W.6.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
W.6.10 Write routinely over shorter time frames.
Ongoing Standards
L.6.4a Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
L.6.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
RI.6.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
RL.6.3 Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
SL.6.1c Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
SL.6.1d Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.
SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
W.6.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
W.6.7 Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
Objectives
TLW choose various folktales to describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes that helps them identify life lessons learned.
TLW engage effectively in discussions about topics, texts, and issues to compare different folktales using graphic organizers, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Assessment Product
Group presentations of original folktales, myths, or legends to the class.
The class will discuss the varying lessons learned presented by students to identify commonalities and differences.
Compare different folktales using graphic organizers.
Key Questions (match Standard)
What effective techniques can I use when I write a narrative?
How can I use collaboration in groups to aid my understanding of folklore?
Observable Student Behaviors (Performance)
Student will produce a narrative response to the lessons taught in various folktales.
Student will create a graphic organizer comparing two folktales.
Student will create a graphic organizer comparing a folktale to personal life experience.
Vocabulary
ELA Cause/effect Character analysis Compare/contrast Custom Universal theme
Suggested Activities
Read “Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China” (HMU6, pages 762-768) and “Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story” (HMU6, pages 770-775). Complete a graphic organizer that shows the similarities and differences between the two stories.
Have students complete a character analysis Venn diagram of one of the title characters and then write a brief paragraph that analyzes that character.
The class will discuss the varying lessons learned presented by students to identify commonalities and differences. (MCO:E/C, S, R) (HYS:NL, SN, CQG)
Compare different folktales using graphic organizers. (MCO:E/C,R, S) (HYS:NL, SN, CQG)
Grade: 6 Unit: 2 Week: 6 Content: ELA Dates: 11/5-11/7
Theme: What do myths, legends, and tales reveal about world cultures?
Essential Questions:
Focus Standards
- RL.6.2 Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
- L.6.1a Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (possessive).
- L.6.3a Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader interest, and style.
- L.6.4b Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
- W.6.2 Write informative/explanatory texts
- W.6.4 Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
- W.6.10 Write routinely over shorter time frames.
Ongoing StandardsObjectives
- TLW choose various folktales to describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes that helps them identify life lessons learned.
- TLW engage effectively in discussions about topics, texts, and issues to compare different folktales using graphic organizers, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
AssessmentProduct
Key Questions (match Standard)
Observable Student Behaviors (Performance)
- Student will produce a narrative response to the lessons taught in various folktales.
- Student will create a graphic organizer comparing two folktales.
- Student will create a graphic organizer comparing a folktale to personal life experience.
VocabularyCause/effect
Character analysis
Compare/contrast
Custom
Universal theme
- Read “Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China” (HMU6, pages 762-768) and “Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story” (HMU6, pages 770-775). Complete a graphic organizer that shows the similarities and differences between the two stories.
- Have students complete a character analysis Venn diagram of one of the title characters and then write a brief paragraph that analyzes that character.
- The class will discuss the varying lessons learned presented by students to identify commonalities and differences. (MCO:E/C, S, R) (HYS:NL, SN, CQG)
- Compare different folktales using graphic organizers. (MCO:E/C,R, S) (HYS:NL, SN, CQG)
HomeworkTerminology for Teachers
Ethnicity/Culture | Immigration/Migration | Intercultural Competence | Socialization | Racism/Discrimination
High Yield Strategies
Similarities/Differences | Summarizing/Notetaking | Reinforcing/Recognition | Homework/Practice |
Non-Linguistic representation | Cooperative Learning | Objectives/Feedback |
Generating-Testing Hypothesis | Cues, Questions, Organizers
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Professional Texts
Literary Texts
- “Twelfth Song of Thunder” (Navajo, Traditional) (E)
- American Tall Tales (Mary Pope Osborne and Michael McCurdy) (EA)
- Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Jane Yolen)
- Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America (Lulu Delacre) (Note: This title also includes informational text.)
Informational Texts- Aztec, Inca, and Maya (DK Eyewitness Books) (Elizabeth Baquedano and Barry Clarke)
- Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Latin America (Lulu Delacre) (Note: This title also includes folktales.)
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- CBS Storybreak - Yeh-Shen A Cinderella Story from China
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou0Wy4ucjs&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active
- http://www.1channel.ch/watch-2197503-CBS-Storybreak-Yeh-Shen-A-Cinderella-Story-from-China
- http://aaunlo.multiply.com/journal/item/34/Yeh
- Shen_A_Cinderella_Story_from_China_Download_Full_Film?&show_interstitial=1&u=%2Fjournal%2Fitem
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